Shaolin Mantis
Directed by Lau Kar-leung
Screenplay by On Szeto
Hong Kong, 1978
In the world of kung fu, so far as the movies go at least, there is a laundry list of various fighting styles which have adapted or directly imitated characteristics of certain animals and insects. Snakes, tigers, crabs, these creatures as well as many others have been the inspiration for some of the most famous combat and self-defence techniques. How one comes to translate the movements of a creature to the realm of martial arts is a matter of inventiveness, but also practice, practice, practice! In 1978, the same year he made 36th Chamber of the Shaolin, director Lau Kar-leung teamed up with perennial star David Chiang, the latter whom spent most of his career collaborating with Chang Cheh, to produce his own animal inspired epic, Shaolin Mantis.
Viewers are once again transported to the time of the Ching Dynasty,...
Directed by Lau Kar-leung
Screenplay by On Szeto
Hong Kong, 1978
In the world of kung fu, so far as the movies go at least, there is a laundry list of various fighting styles which have adapted or directly imitated characteristics of certain animals and insects. Snakes, tigers, crabs, these creatures as well as many others have been the inspiration for some of the most famous combat and self-defence techniques. How one comes to translate the movements of a creature to the realm of martial arts is a matter of inventiveness, but also practice, practice, practice! In 1978, the same year he made 36th Chamber of the Shaolin, director Lau Kar-leung teamed up with perennial star David Chiang, the latter whom spent most of his career collaborating with Chang Cheh, to produce his own animal inspired epic, Shaolin Mantis.
Viewers are once again transported to the time of the Ching Dynasty,...
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